Re: Strange entries in /proc/acpi/thermal_zone for Thinkpad X60

[Jeremy Fitzhardinge]

Robert Hancock wrote:
> I would expect they wouldn't, otherwise there would be no reason for 
> the BIOS people to set up two thermal zones..

Ah, OK.  I misunderstood what thermal zones are.

> How do you know they are one for each core? ACPI thermal zones can be 
> anywhere in the machine that needs OS-controlled cooling. Could be the 
> CPU heatsink, voltage regulator, or someplace else.

Right, bad assumption on my part.  Is there any way to find out what 
they might correspond to?  /proc/acpi/ibm/thermal has a bunch of 
temperature-like numbers in them; I guess there should be some 
correlation between those and the thermal zones.

> I think we need more information to decide what is going on here.. 
> what temperatures are registering in the thermal zones when the CPU 
> clock is being limited?

I'll gather a bit more info.

   J
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